RE: Recommendations for external DVD-ROM drive?

I'm a fan of Pioneer drives. Work well with EAC, and generally handle discs
of all types that other drives have been finicky with. I have an external
USB Pioneer BD-RW drive that I bought for $89 back in 2013. I use it quite
often to read and write all 3 types of media (CD/DVD/BD), and it's still
going strong.
 


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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2020 14:15
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [EAC] Recommendations for external DVD-ROM drive?




generally speaking i like plextor drives.  i also have had good experiences
with HP lightscribe drives, which allow u to burn graphics to the CD label
side.

i have not bought either for years tho.  ymmv.  -mdw


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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Fred Maxwell
[email protected] [EAC] <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 7, 2020 4:36 PM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [EAC] Recommendations for external DVD-ROM drive? 
 
  



On Oct 7, 2020, at 12:06 PM, Mike Brown [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>  [EAC] <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:



DVD? Really? How about joining the 21st century

Says the guy who was just railing against HTML emails.  



and getting a Blu-ray drive? You can get a lot more data on a 25GB BD disc.
BD discs are very
cheap. You'll pay less for one BD disc than the number of DVDs to store the
same amount of data.


How about joining the 21st century and not using one-time-write optical
discs for general data storage?  You can get a 128GB USB 3.1 flash drive at
Micro Center for $9.99.  That's 5x the storage of a BD-R disc and it can be
rewritten thousands of times.  Unlike DVD drives, Blu-Ray drives are
relatively uncommon on personal computers, making BD-R discs unappealing as
data distribution media. 


Unless your goal is to form another optical disc layer through which future
archaeologists must dig in order to reach the AOL free CD layer, I'm not
seeing much appeal to BD-R for most users.  



Regards,
  Fred Maxwell
  Moderator, Exact Audio Copy Yahoogroup